The catcher still takes damage and you cant heal him. So why so complicated? Usually you throw rats on rats. The damage to them is not important when you form the rat king after.
I do not use one card per model when i have 15 malifaux rats on the table. One card for reference and some dice for wounds is enough.
Else you need an extra table just to lay all your cards out and a lot of time looking to connect models with their corresponding cards...
The system can lead to ridiculouse overpowered models. Sometimes you dont need so much upgrades.
Izamu with Immunity to slow/paralyze and added armor for example.
So sweet that you can abuse it. Play a 30ss game. Take a highly survivable master and nothing else and run away. Get 1 script for bodyguard, one for master alive and 15 scripts for underdog. Normal games give around 3 scripts. You get 17! This is just stupid.
Kaeris can only hire MSU Members and assets. If she leads a crew and hires Johan, how much ss does Johan costs? Colette gets him for 5, but Kaeris is missing the "at no additional costs" part, so is Johan hired as mercenary instead for 6?